I think I’d prefer to die than become a face on a slab for the rest of eternity.

No no, we all know that the most horrific fate was Donna noble when she had to move to Leeds in turn left

For number 4, the older Amy Pond couldn't go into the TARDIS as long as the younger one was already in there, so they couldn't take off because that would cause a time paradox. So the Doctor made Rory, her husband, decide. Rory chose the younger Amy that hadn't been left behind because they could then go forward with their lives and the older Amy would never have existed, and therefore they could escape.

What's grotesquesly ironic is that the immortality the Doctor bestows upon Ursula _as a mercy_ in Love and Monsters is exactly as horrific as the immortalities he bestows upon The Family _as a punishment_ in Family of Blood.

I think you've forgotten Dark Water, where we find out everyone who died has their consciousness live on and feel everything that happens to their body. "Don't creamate me!"

You forgot to mention that happen also literally sneezed his brain out to complete the transformation.

“Landed on a Planet that was under quarantine due to a viral outbreak” _Hmmmmmmmm_

The other passengers having to live with themselves after encountering the 'Midnight' entity. Or Pete realising he has to kill himself to close the 'Father's Day' paradox.

Also worth mentioning: The people who were being farmed for their time/energy by the Weeping Angels in New York spending their entire lives in a hotel room The humans who were killed and reanimated by the Daleks, remembering their past lives but not caring about it. The old Doctor who lived in an abandoned school with The Silence, whose memory was so damaged he was acting out the same day over and over well years passed. The humans who had their consciousness restored after being converted into Cybermen in The Age Of Steel, their suffering was brief but truly horrific The John Smith identity of the Doctor who was given the choice of living a life that wasn't real or sacrificing his life of to save others.

The chilling narration at the end of giving the family immortality: “not because he was cruel, but because he was being kind.”

You say you THINK The Family of Blood were probably not happy with their fate, but the son flat out stated they weren’t. One of his last lines was that they thought the Doctor was running because he was scared of them, but now he knows that the Doctor ran because he was trying to show them mercy. It was, for me, one of the most chilling lines from Doctor Who, both new and old, and definitely not any fate I would ever wish for myself.

I'd have Clara being trapped inside a Dalek case as one of mine. Even given it's early position in the season, I thought they were completing her arc. Circling back to her reveal in the Asylum. The added dalek censor circuit made it more nightmarish...

I don't remember the exact episode, but it was with Clara and Twelve, when the aliens turned people 2D. And there was that one scene where the policewoman was slowly sucked into the ground, and just how terrified she was made me shiver in horror. Plus, when after they realise what happened, that different parts of the house are parts of people...Gives me the chills to this day.

I feel like almost every doctor who companion needs therapy

"You should've seen it, Doctor. Furnaces burning, the last of humanity screaming at the dark. All that human invention that had sustained them across the eons. It all turned inward. They cannibalized themselves. Regressing into children. But it didn’t work. The universe was collapsing around them." - The Master's description of Utopia always brings chills for me. Also you kinda missed an important character as The Master's speech goes on to say; "My masterpiece, Doctor. A living TARDIS strong enough to hold the paradox in place. Allowing the past and the future to collide in infinite majesty." Sure, The TARDIS hadn't really met her fate yet but the amount times she's been trashed, ripped apart, cannibalised, punched, shot and even came to the brink of death when she fell into that Parallel Universe. And yet, The TARDIS has been through all that and still limps along to take The Doctor where they need to go and protects them as best she can.

The fate of The Flesh gangers stand out to me in memory. When they were discarded they'd still be conscious, and it was implied they were in pain, but now were helpless blobs that could do nothing about it. I haven't watched the episode since it aired, but from what I remember the pain only ceased once they'd gradually rotted away. Yikes.

I always found it sad when river died to save the doctor and he didn’t even know who she was at that point

I always thought it was kind of stupid that he could only save her face on a slab of concrete. Why bother? That’s a horrible fate.

Every people who turn into Cyberman.. the whole process plus when the blockers off and they realize what have done to them...

FFS the girl who waited? She waited what, 40 years - Rory waited thousands. "OMG you killed Rory - you bastards...."

You are forgetting all the horrific ones from the ORIGINAL Dr Who Run. e.g being kept alive forever in rassellon's tomb as a head bust.

I think one of the most horrific fates was Donna's. Catherine Tate's acting in that scene is so heartbreaking.

Sarah Jane was left in Aberdeen. I mean, that's pretty rough too.

There was Captain Jack. Unintentionally cursed with immortality, he has to live through the 20th century to try to find the Doctor again, only to be left behind and we discover he is TheFace Of Beau(Bo?) existing as just a face and little else. And if you include Torchwood, there’s a whole story about the human race becoming immortal and struggling to deal with eternal life without external youth and even surviving fatal accidents and murder.

7:20 It's okay she becomes a ghost and resides in a Hogwarts bathroom

I always, always get something in my eye when I think of Bill being converted. She was such a brilliant companion for The Doctor. I really wish that she had been in more than just a single series. Pearl Mackie was so good in the role.

The worst part is that Ursula Still had an "intimate" relationship while still being a slab

I have three more scenes to add to this. The first can be described with the words "Are you my mummy?" and the second one is being turned into a meat suit for the Gelth. What was worse about the Gelth was that they tried to use the Time War to _guilt_ the Doctor into helping them and for a while it works until they reveal that " We don't want your pity. We want this world and all it's flesh." (ew. just ew.) The last one is the one that the Doctor himself casually dismisses, saying that the Weeping Angels are "the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely". Well, there's nothing "nice" about being dragged out of your own time, away from your family, forced to live out the rest of your life away from everyone you love while some statue feeds on the time that you _could have had_ had you not looked away from it.

Wouldn't have made more sense if the Praxeus victims just shelled up, didn't explode and in an ironical sense, becoming like the litter and plastic itself, being an eyesore which cannot be cremated, destroyed or decompose.

I still get nightmares about turning into one of the Empty Child's minions. It is just straight-up scary for me.

For me Donna losing her memory of the Doctor is the most sad ending, she was such an amazing companion and her and the doctor were best friends and they just loved each other and you can see how much it kills him to do it, she would have made a fantastic doctor and I think it's so sad to think that she would have then found herself often sad and not knowing why, like when Amy forgets Rory and starts crying for unknown reasons. Such a sad way for her to go

Getting controlled by the thing on Midnight. We still don’t even know WHAT that was or even fully what it does to its victims.

The family of blood always creeped me out especially Bains (the son, I think that was his name)

I think Heaven sent should have been on here The Doctor literally spent billions of years in his own torture chamber

Though not a physically painful or gross end to a companion, Donna Noble getting her entire memories of her time with The Doctor erased by The Doctor was a sad ending to a great character. And Rose Tyler getting trapped on alternate Earth. Remembering The Doctor every day and probably wishing she didn't.

To be fair, the idea of the toclafane is one of the scariest ones in Doctor Who entirely. Just imagine being a mouthless head stuck in a cold sphere.

I had the impression that Diagaris and Dalek Sec became a symbiatic consciousness because Dalek Sec was combining their forms and NOT eating him. The two had seemed to have a strange friendship. Having a biped form, Sec might have needed an internal guide/cheerleader to stand and actually take a step that would have saved the Dalek race if the Cult of Skaro hadn't chickened out to the tune of "Exterminate.• Dalec Sec saved the Dalek race, the Cult of Skaro promptly murdered it. In my opinion.

Donna's fate was soul crushing

The one that always gets me is Cassandra, in The End of the World, she is just held in place to be ripped apart, seemingly to perish, but as we find out in New Earth, she was still alive, so her skin/body with eyes and mouth were ripped apart, but her brain is still there, alive and conscious until a new piece of skin is created for her. She was conscious and yet utterly unable to let anybody know that she was still alive. Also, the way that Dr. Constantine changes into one of the gas mask zombies always freaks me out!

It's surprising how much they get away with. And yet they're not allowed to show blood!

I think being exterminated trying to fight a Dalek is an honourable way to die .

The girl who waited still disturbs me. The doctor just grabbed a different pond from a different timeline and next episode it was like "Everything is okay now, let's forget about that", but that Amy Pond lost her mind, trapped alone for 30 years, and then died.

Not fate suffering but, to me, the most shocking death was Captain Adelaide Brooke from The Waters Of Mars.

You forgot that Amy had to wait for 2000 years while being fully conscience through the time, trapped in a box during the season finale of season5

The older *Amy* didn't die, she ceased to exist as soon as the young *Amy* flew away in the Tardis.

People talk about Amy but they forget that Rory had been basically erased from existence, rebuilt as a robot clone, and then stood guard over Amy for thousands of years as the Last Centurion, something that even the Doctor said would have driven him mad.

I'd also put the characters infected by the Flood as an honourable mention. Felt bad for their families who would never know what happened to them.

The Doctor didn’t abandon Amy. Their/our timeline Amy was also the TARDIS and they couldn’t exist together So he picked his Amy

1) The Doctor: Having to live with being the Doctor. For all the humor and quirkiness of the Doctor's personality, what's lurking underneath occasionally breaks through the surface, and it is almost invariably this endless well of pain and suffering, loss and loneliness that he's been witness to or had to bear over the course of his lives. That's sort of his character underneath, the tragedy of who he is. The Doctor can seem callous to all the things that go on around him-- all the death and suffering other people experience-- but the reason he keeps driving himself forward, on the edge of madness, is because he experiences everyone else's suffering along with them, as keenly as they do, and has to carry it forever because he's consigned himself to the role of having to be the one who bears it. And he bears it because deep down he thinks in the end, if he can't bear up underneath it-- if he can't carry the weight of the entire Universe when it can't carry itself and do what needs to be done no matter the cost-- then what was it all worth? No matter how much he runs, how silly he acts, or how much he tries to distract himself by trying to experience the wonders of the Universe through the adventures he takes his companions on, the pain of it all never really goes away. The wounds never really heal. They just get hidden under the veneer of him being a madman with a box.

i get that bills reveal as a cybermen was a shock but i gotta say yvonne hartman and her i did my duty for queen and country is absolutely devastating to watch

I’d say the three most horrific fates are becoming a cyberman, being sent back in time by the angles and being turned into a ood

Honestly, the episodes where the Doctor isn't the main character are some of the scariest in the series.

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The hostess from midnight. Knowing that the only way she could save a group of random strangers was by killing herself in an excruciating way while killing one of the passengers that she was meant to protect. What makes it worse is that nobody even remembered her name

If anyone found 10's punishment in Family of Blood odd, just note that it's from a 7th doctor novel.

The poor bloke with the stutter who dated Donna in the Library simulation computer, she thought he wasn’t real and when he saw her while on the teleportation pod and tried to call out to her... got teleported out of her life for good.

Okay, so i went from thinking that the girlfriend slab was from a doctor who episode at age 8, to thinking my friend tricked me and the girlfriend slab was a cathartic end to a horror film at age 16, to finding out for sure that the girlfriend slab was actually a doctor who episode at age 17.

The thing about both Amy’s in a Tardis is it would have destroyed it so the doctor had to make a choice both Amy’s but everyone dies or one Amy but the other dies

The horror of Halpin's transformation starts at 9:50-10:00 but really ends at 9:43 when his brain shrinks and migrates down his spine, into an embryonic casing and gets vomited from his mouth

You missed Donna, having to live with her mum again after series 4. What fate is worse than that?!

I don’t know what is more cruel regarding Ursula, that the writer considered it acceptable for her to remain a face in a paving slab for however long she lived or that the writer had Elton believe it was acceptable to let her live that way and take advantage of her physical condition.

I'm surprised they didn't add Chancellor Barusa's fate in The Five Doctors. Especially as it was so similar to Ursula's in effect.

I found Amy and Rory's fate in The Angels take Manhattan a bit lame. Apparently, the Doctor would not be able to rescue Rory and Amy from the past they were sent to because the locality is time locked. There was nothing to stop the Doctor telling them to hop on a train and go to a different city and he will pick them up. Amy even left a message in the book they were reading at the start of the story. She could have left coordinates to be picked up. Also, in Blink the 10th Doctor and Martha were sent back to the 1960’s and that story ended with the Doctor remote controlling the Tardis to rescue them.

The worst fate by a wide margin is the one that has befallen the Doctor under Chibnall's abysmal writing!

I think from the Torchwood series, Owen Harper had it bad. Imagine being dead but still living.

“It’s not safe out here. It’s wondrous with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it’s not for the timid!” Q

River and the Doctor's relationship... The older she gets, the less he knows about her and the day she died he didn't know her at all.

my vote would have to be adric whose travels come to an end in Earthshock when he tries to stop a Cyberman-controlled freighter from crashing into Earth. The navigational controls are locked by logic codes, and Adric is entering the solution to the last code when the computer is destroyed by a dying Cyberman. He dies in the crash, while his crewmates watch in horror on the TARDIS viewscreen. His last words before the explosion kills him are "Now I'll never know if I was right." Adric dies not knowing that the freighter he was trying to stop would become the "meteor" that would wipe out the dinosaurs and lead to the rise of mammals and eventually humans

How bout the end of The Pandorica Opens? The Doctor gets incarcerated, Rory kills his own girlfriend, River Song dies inside the exploding TARDIS, and the stars in the sky go extinct. It is one tearjerking moment.

I can think of at least two from the earlier series. One character stepped on a type of mine that turned him into a tree - there were two others as well. There was also the end of the episode of the Five Doctors where the villain is offered immortality and he ends up one of the faces on the tomb or Rasolone.

Man, it's easy to forget what monsters David's and Matt's Doctors were becoming, like Matt straight up says it at one point "a good man doesn't need rules" and then you have to imagine he made those rules while David was on his "time lord victorious" binge.

on the family of blood’s fate, i believe the last thing Son of Mine said was “Know we knew why the doctor had ran and hid: he was being kind.”

Some of the fates in original Doctor Who were pretty horrific: Seeds of Doom-slowly turning into a giant writhing mass of green tentacle vines after being touched by the inside of the seed. Sara Kingdom's fate in The Dalaks Master Plan-being aged to death in the matter of a few seconds. Katarina's fate in The Dalaks Master Plan-purposely blowing herself out of an airlock to save the Doctor. The Five Doctors-President Borusa being permanently turned to stone in his mad quest for immortality. Tremas's fate in The Keeper of Traken-after touching the face of the clock (which turns out to the the Master's TARDIS), he becomes paralyzed and cannot stop the Master from permanently merging his decaying body with his own.

Honorable mention for the people eaten by the Vashta Narada. Although thinking about it that would have been a very quick death.

Desiccating daleks in the sewers of Skaro, anyone? Everyone loves to hate the daleks, but to be one in that circumstance? Eesh.

Donna Noble. She finally realized how brilliant she was, then had to go back to a life of abuse from her mother and "Screaming at the world, because no one listens"

If you move the D one place forward from the word Ood, you have a shape shifter working on a space station.

The Family of Blood storyline also had the original occupants of their bodies effectivly killed at the start of the story.

"I did my duty for queen and country."

Missy's humiliation, having to be saved from execution by her worst enemy/friend, and then kept as a prisoner for the next thousand years...

I would have also added Donna and every companion who died when they were with the Doctor, as well as Tosh, Owen, Ianto and Jack's grandson Steven (though they were in Torchwood and not Doctor Who). I also think what's worse than what happened to Singh and Diagoras is what led to what happened to them; after the Cult of Skaro exited the Void Ship, Dalek Sec asked Rose, Mickey and Singh who was the least important of the three and Singh nominated himself (effectively sacrificing his life for Rose and Mickey). Mr Diagoras meanwhile allied himself with the Daleks and he was told that his loyalty to them would be rewarded, only for them to kill him. And although I might not make this any better, but you do know that the Amy the Handbots killed was an alternate version while Amy from the real world was saved from them. It's also good to see that Bill was somewhat resurrected into the sentient oil (and not really turned into an emotionless being forever).

Ursula Blake: *Gets stucked in a concrete slab Angelo: First time?

Being left completely alone like Amy Pond is something that happened to me recently. It's not pleasant feeling like you meant nothing to anyone in spite of your best efforts.

Ik in a recent video they released showed that the SS Madame De Pompadour started to think it was her and was longing to meet the doctor again, I think thats a pretty awful fate even if the ship isnt really her it still thinks it is.

The intro led me to believe it was going be about people who went with the Doctor not just existed in that universe. No spoilers on Who actually made the list.

The ageing makeup for Amy was done really well!

I was so sad to see Bill go out like that. She wasn't given enough time to really shine.

I think the most horrific fate suffered by any Doctor Who character has to be that of the Doctor himself/herself.

The should be a Doctor Who Lockdown story for Ursula’s final fate.

How about being turned into a peg doll. I know they got overturned but he'll that was horrid

Couldn’t they just clone Ursula a new body?Or maybe a flesh avatar?

One terrible (but not undeserved) fate that comes to mind is at the end of "Pyramids of Mars," when the Doctor traps Sutekh in a time tunnel where he will just continue to age until he eventually dies.

I just don’t understand how this show is pg

Sci-fi isn't always pretty.

Dr. Who is without a doubt the one show that I have stayed lotal too for more years than I can count

Well thanks to assorted Materials, Sister of Mine (family of blood) was eventually freed by 13. Also the Tocofane were almost the daleks And the less we talk about Úrsula the better

Amy: You think you are just going to come back to life again? Rory: When don't I? You have to admit Rory has had it pretty rough. He had to wait over 1800 years. He has died like 7 different times. I think the only character to die more times in a series is Yamcha.

Why do I love Doctor Who again? Time travel that makes no sense. Episodes I only saw once, and can never see again? (I was a young Californian pre-teen living in England in the 60's.) An often cruel Doctor. Horrible fates. High death counts. And yet I do love it so. As always thank you so very much for your efforts, observations, delivery, and video.

I actually find donnas exit sadder than roses

Brilliant list of tragic ends. It must be a great challenge for the writers to come up with startling deaths for the characters - but there are some really imaginative ones. The Family of Blood, especially is particularly devious by the Doctor.